Posted: October 20, 2025
Last Updated: October 20, 2025
By: Conner Quintero
Fortnite Servers Down Worldwide Amid AWS Outage – What Players Need to Know
Earlier this morning, Fortnite players around the world were greeted with login errors, long queue times and failed matchmaking — due to a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that impacted multiple platforms. The Verge+1
Epic Games confirmed that its services tied to Fortnite and the Epic Games Store were affected by networking issues in the US-EAST-1 region of AWS. The downtime began around 3 a.m. ET, causing widespread connection problems across PlayStation, Xbox, PC and mobile. New York Post
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